On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 11:17:35PM +1100, Martin wrote:
> $author = "David Fitch" ;
> > > but it doesn't work.  Telnet to 192.168.1.1 800 just gives
> > > connection refused messages, but 192.168.1.1 reports an
> > > accepted connection on that port, 192.168.1.2 reports nothing.
> 
> ok. help me out here...
> 
> why does an external interface have an IP in the same subnet as an internal
> interface? or are these dummy IPs?

no right IP address - and that was the problem (as someone pointed
out to me) I was forwarding the eth0 interface not ppp0 (so yes it
should have been <my dynamic ip> instead of 192.168.1.1.
It's working now, yay!

Dave.

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